oh my god someone spammed about a million people using my domain name and i have been awash in bounces for the past 48 hours -- help me make it stop!!

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obv this is urgent and key

whoever did this used a bunch of different character strings as return addresses, so i can't even filter out one 'to:' line. help!!

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

this just happened to pashmina too - not sure whether he got it sorted but thread here: having email spammers use your domain name as a spoof "from" address in theis skanky viagra unsolicited bulk emails dud or the fukcing duddest thing in thee world ever?

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't understand this either, most likely you are the only person receiving this, some spammer has you in an email index somewhere. I get a bunch of these as well. I think there are some mailservers that generate spam that have a virus on them. this particular symptom does not match correctly with any of the current crop of viruses that I keep reading about, yet it's been happening to me for about a year.

Just create a filter for the "undeliverable" subject line and dunk them to your trash and hope for the best. eventually it will die down.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah maura i'm getting the same thing due to the microsoft security patch virus. i think my box might even be infected. (yr. still not on unpopular hosting are you?)Ë™

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(no sterling i got kicked off unpopular about two years ago, ha. i should tell you about it sometime, it's like passive-aggressive internet 101)

how can i create a subject-line filter in procmail?

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

bummer, especialy as verisign has broken a number of spam gaurds so that spammers don't need to do this right now.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

:0: * ^(Subj).*Undeliverable #or whatever trashfolder

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have a nice ISP hosting your domain, you can ask them if they'll filter it out at their level. Might not work if you're on a big one, they'd laugh at you, but a small mom & pop one probably could easily handle it. Then it'd never reach your inbox & you wouldn't need to filter it out.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Maura--the EXACT same thing just happened to me with l*c*n**. Different subject line & address for each one. AAUGH! If you figure out what to do, let me know.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

its gotta be this new fucking virus.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

As noted above, thee exact same thing happened to me. Abt the only upside is that it stopped after about 4 days. All you can do is keep deleting, or create a temporary killfile for the subj header "message undeliverable". sorry to hear about it maura - it fukcing sucks.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that .procmail info worked -- thanks!! someone respammed with my address this weekend -- i've been awash in AOL bounces for the past three days. like, about 1500 total. is there any way i can sue these people for restraint of trade or something? i do use maura.com in professional capacities.

― maura (maura), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

IANAL, but if you can track them down, and would be willing to endure the court proceedings, then you could most probably extract a sum of money out of them. It probably isn't worth it, though.

I've recently registered a domain name purely for email which I'm never, ever going to allow be written on a web page anywhere. I only tell people my address in person, over the phone, or via personal email.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 29 September 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I noticed that the minuted you use an email address on a web page, usenet forum, web board, etc etc, then thats it - spam city.

Interestingly, my regular email address only started getting spam (and only a little) after I started using it on ILX (which I quickly stopped again). I assumed that the non-logged in munging would protect it, and it seems I was wrong.. oh well. Its nothing severe. I'm not blaming anyone but me, I should know better! heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 September 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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